a recording of that soloist can be made indistinguishable from the actual performance, i think we need to accept that there is some value to the soloist and the audience in being in a room with such a piece of history and craftsmanship.
Perhaps. What we don't need to accept are the claims of Stradivarius fanbois that insist there is some unquantifiable aural superiority to their favorite instrument that only they have been blessed with the ability to perceive. It's bunk, and this study has been a small victory for rational thinking. So feel free to cling to whatever intangible you wish, but I feel no loss here; I celebrate whenever we can finally dispense with yet another fetid accumulation of nonsense and its purveyors.
